Michel de Beaupuy

Michel de Beaupuy (14 July 1755-19 October 1796) was a general of the French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Michel de Beaupuy was born on 14 July 1755 in Mussidan in the Kingdom of France to a noble family. In 1773 he became a Lieutenant at the age of 18 in the French Army and at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1792 he took command of a Dordogne volunteer battalion. In 1793 he was made a Brigadier-General, and he fought in the siege of Mainz and the battle of La Tremblaye. In 1794 he transferred to the Army of the Rhine under Jean Victor Marie Moreau and fought at the battle of Emmendingen, where he was killed by a cannonball on 19 October 1796.